Mozilla has annonuced new developer reference smartphone and tablets at the Mobile World Congress. These include a 4.5″ dual-core reference phone called Firefox OS Flame, 7-inch VIA Vixen tablet and a 10-inch Foxconn InFocus tablet. It has also announced new Firefox OS PhoneGap mobile application development framework integration, that lets PhoneGap developers to port their existing apps to Firefox OS in a matter of hours. It also launched new developer tools, that lets OEMs and operators to easily customize Firefox OS.

Developers looking to target their apps for specific Firefox OS phones can also alter RAM from 1GB to 256MB, to see how their apps would perform on lower-end phones. Foxconn and VIA tablets for developers would help Mozilla community complete the build of Firefox OS for tablets, says Mozilla.

It has also unveiled a $25 reference design powered by Spreadtrum processor. The company has also announced new smartphones ZTE Open C, Open II, Huawei Y300 and Alcatel ONETOUCH smartphones and tablet running Firefox OS and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.

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